Quick poll - who else has been doing this wrong all their life?

I have an overbite, narrow palette, and i suspect a deviated septum too, mine rests on the floor of my mouth and its all very well people saying 'this is ridiculous, there's no wrong place to put your tongue' but I've had dental and throat issues my whole life because of it! I remember when I had braces fitted as a teenager my ortho saying 'you need to breath through your nose' and me literally having to figure out how to do it in the chair... if I breath through my nose, the best way I can describe it is im breathing but im only getting about 25% of the oxygen i should. This improves by about 30% if I push my lower jaw forward, but I've never been able to breath properly. I have no idea how id go about approaching it with a GP, I know that jaw surgery is the only option for the overbite but I just dont know if id hit any threshold for septum surgery as it causes me problems you couldn't 100% attribute to a deviated septum...

@Ichangedmynameonceyes always, well until I start snoring when I fall asleep apparently! 😀

But I hate mouth breathing! If I have a blocked nose then it’s inevitable but otherwise I just don’t. I find that feeling of a dry mouth and throat too uncomfortable. Feels like I’m not getting enough air in my lungs too.

I think my tongue just rests at the bottom. I have no idea now because you have tripped me out thinking about this!

Who doesn't breathe in and out through their nose? That's what it's there for.

The pics look the same to me, what am I missing? But mine sits on the bottom of my mouth. Is that wrong?!

I feel really conscious of my tongue now!

I think it rests in the proper position but I have honestly never given it any thought and now it feels weird in my mouth

The human race has survived 200,000 years without being told where to place their tongue.

This is one of the many pseudoscientific "therapies" that turn up every couple of months just to be forgotten when the next fad comes up.

Wish I hadn't opened this! My jaw always aches so I was searching for reasons and came across this a few months ago. Got super stressed about my tongue position for weeks. Forgot about it. And now, here I am, wondering whether I have a 'tongue in the wrong postion' face.
Mine is neither on the roof or bottom of my mouth. It floats in the middle.

Might depend on the size/length of your tongue depth of your mouth as much as anything else.

Also, I have a bumpy nose - Norman ancestry - which has definite bearing on breathing.

So you breathe out through your nose too? Thanks

I have a deviated septum which means I snore and can’t breathe through my nose really at all. My tongue rests behind my bottom teeth naturally. I was in my 20s before even realised that most people breathe through their noses.

Yes I suck my mouth closed too. Particularly when I’m going to sleep

@pinkpony when you breathe out is it through your mouth or nose? If through your mouth, what happens to your tongue- where does it sit then?.thanks

I read about this a while ago and was surprised that’s not where everyone’s tongue sits. I’d never given it any thought before but that’s where mine just sits, it feels uncomfy otherwise.

Yeah, seems popular with incels for they kid themselves giving them a rugged square jawline.

How are you doing it @toastedteddy? I'm trying to but no idea if I've got the tongue position in roof of my mouth correct and it feels so odd!

This all sounds bonkers! 😂

Just be glad we aren't like dogs with long tongues hanging out the sides of our mouths and dripping! "You're a side-dripper, that's wrong!" "Do you lick your nose with your tongue in company?" "How many drips is rude when you're on a new date?" 😂

Honestly my tongue is just fine where it is. Humanity is nuts. LOL! 😆

Of course YABU 🤣

My tongue rests like the 'wrong' picture.

My teeth are not overcrowded.
My bite is perfect.
I don't have a narrow palate, if anything I have a wide jaw.
Nothing wrong with my facial structure.
I mostly breathe through my nose. (No idea what's wrong with mouth breathing, anyway. Don't most of us breath through our mouths if we're so deeply asleep that all our muscles relax, including our jaw muscles?)
My speech is clear and my swallowing is fine.
I never snored until I was pregnant. It's normal to snore in pregnancy.

Anyway, the tongue falling backwards to rest against the back of the palate causes snoring.

Tongue position causing those issues is complete gubbins.

Do you sort of suck your mouth closed?
I create a kind of suction in my mouth, maybe by swallowing the saliva, and then ignore it. Everything stays put. It isn’t a conscious effort.
There’s no air in my mouth. I think that contributes to bad breath.

I've heard about this thing called 'mewing'. Nothing to do with cats or their tongues. It's named after the conman dentist who came up with it. I can't remember much of the specifics but it has something to do with the tongue, possibly soft food not giving our mouths enough of a workout leading to narrow jaw and crowded teeth. I think it's a bit more active than this though. Iirc you're supposed to push your tongue against your teeth...?

I waste enough time on MN so I don't go near tiktok but I think there are, generally male, 'fluencers on there who are all over it. They believe it sculpts their faces.

I have scalloped tongue from years of poor hypothyroidism treatment, so presumably mine squishes out the sides instead. I've never heard that we are supposed to keep our tongue in a particular spot. Who would teach people such things? Surely the point is that your tongue goes where it's comfy, but if it's comfy in the "wrong" place then you have issues.

As long as it isn't lolling out the side it's fine.

My tongue feels weird wherever I put it now I'm conscious of it. I think it rests gently touching the top just behind my front teeth but not all along the hard palette.

I feel like I'm at the dentist now and can't keep my tongue still.

I remember as a child I read about mouth breathers so I consciously chose to breathe through my nose instead, but that wasnt to do with posture etc. It was more i didn't want people laughing at me. That change was a bit of an effort, as my sinuses aren't great, but it comes naturally now.
Also I'm a naturally tense person so my tongue automatically goes to the roof of my mouth. I read once a sleeping tip that said to relax the tongue to help with the falling asleep process. I most don't need to do that anymore.